Systems Engineering
Pragmatics Systems Engineering (SE) services incorporate our SEI CMMI® technical and management processes to integrate best practices into all aspects of our customer programs, ensuring that interfaces between systems, subsystems, system components, and component interfaces function appropriately in the operational information technology environment.
Pragmatics delivers highly integrated, secure, and functional systems and applications. Our SE processes ensure that our approach addresses technical and management risks; commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and government off-the-shelf products are incorporated; new components are compliant and integrate into the existing system architecture; and the system conforms to business, technical, and functional requirements.
Our services support the complete systems engineering life cycle (SELC), covering a broad range of activities focusing on well-managed SE processes and services support in accordance with CMMI, IEEE, DAU, INCOSE, and ISO standards and guidance.
Our SE services include:
• Systems engineering planning and management – We develop, implement, and manage SE processes throughout the entire SELC. Successful SE management includes estimation and proactive risks identification and development of mitigation techniques. System uncertainty is reduced when project risks are identified, quantified, and implemented.
• Systems definition, decomposition, and design – Our SE approach is an iterative process from top-down synthesis of definition, functional decomposition, system analysis, and system design. We capture mission and user needs, develop a concept of operations, assess technical capabilities, develop system requirements, and analyze required features to develop an architectural design.
• Iterations and releases – We use an agile software development approach to ensure our customers’ involvement in verifying that their requirements are being met during implementation. This approach identifies a design by decomposing components into finer level of detail descriptions while capturing design decisions and trade-off analysis results. We implement our software via test-driven development unit testing techniques.
• COTS integration – Our SE processes cover the evaluation, selection, and integration of COTS components for methodic installation into stand-alone and enterprise systems.
• Systems integration, testing, and support - Releases are integrated with other systems, evaluated through performance and end-user testing, supported during deployment, and sustained in the operations and maintenance phase. Our goal is to constantly strive for implementation improvements through ongoing assessments and refinement of the technology and processes with all stakeholders.
Pragmatics is well-positioned to support our customers’ systems engineering needs. We support efforts ranging from three-month requirements development to multi-year system maintenance contracts. We have delivered these services for military satellite and command and control systems, intelligence systems, and efforts involving the integration of security capabilities into new and legacy systems.
We also provide a robust, systematic, metrics-oriented and risk-identification-driven corporate Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) methodology, which is inherently integrated into our SE processes.
Pragmatics uses the Rapid Implementation and Test Environment (RITE) Laboratory, a research and development environment, for researching and evaluating emerging technologies and infrastructure modifications. This laboratory enables our personnel to leverage vendor partnerships for access to the latest COTS packages and analyze ways we can incorporate these products into our solutions to introduce quality and efficiency improvements. Our subject matter experts (SMEs) often obtain beta or evaluation copies of innovative technologies, which are tested in the RITE Lab. Various Pragmatics projects also utilized the RITE Lab for researching, evaluating, and recommending new technologies, infrastructure modifications, and other opportunities.
For More Information:
Linda Alkire
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